Arguing is often not a result of people misunderstanding one another, but of holding different goals.
Arguing is to be done dispassionately, for when an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.
Arguing is relative. When we ourselves argue, it's because we are sensitive. When others do, it's because they are quarrelsome.
Arguing is full of bias, always leaving each party convinced that the other has a closed mind.
Arguing is not to be engaged in with inferiors, The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.
Arguing is unmatched in its total bitterness when amongst family; and yet these arguments are underlain by a pleasantness based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps... that any limb you climb out on will still be there later tor you to climb bacK.